More inconsistencies in SAPOL’s investigation of Gus Lamont disappearance
As we recently reported, SAPOL has committed numerous suspicious ‘blunders’ in its investigation of the Gus Lamont disappearance.
Gus Lamont’s grandmother, Josie Murray, wanted an aboriginal tracker deployed ASAP to search for Gus. Instead, SAPOL arrived the morning after Gus’s disappearance with a platoon of vehicles and an army of officers who proceeded to drive and trample over what was potentially a crime scene.
A tracker was not deployed until days later.
Speaking to the Adelaide Advertiser, Aaron Stewart, who has previously assisted police in outback rescues, said the tracker should have been called in earlier.
“Police do it in a formula, which takes time,” he said.
“And in the bush, the heat, the flies, the wind, don’t wait for no one.”
He told the newspaper a good tracker took all things into consideration, including “wind changes, weather, and all the different elements”.
Photo of Gus not released
A photo of Gus was not released until 5 days after his disappearance. It is unclear whether the delay was due to police or family, but if SAPOL was being honest when it repeatedly told the media “The family of Gus have continued to co-operate fully with police,” then a photo should have been released much sooner.
You’d almost think that if someone had abducted Gus, SAPOL wanted to give them a head start.
Second cop strangely aborts mission
According to Josie Murray, the second cop dispatched to the property that evening was in the vicinity, but allegedly could not find the station and simply gave up, turned around, and drove back to Orroroo, over 120kms away.
SAPOL vehicles are equipped with GPS and Murray had been giving him directions over the phone. If this allegation is true, then the cop in question definitely needs to explain himself.
Are SAPOL really trying to solve this case, or just being arseholes as usual?
On 5 February 2026, SAPOL held a press conference and declared the Gus Lamont disappearance a major crime.
Major crime superintendent Darren Fielke told the gathered media that SAPOL now had a suspect.
“A person who resides at Oak Park Station has withdrawn their support for the police and is no longer cooperating with us,” said Fielke.
“The person who has withdrawn their co-operation is now considered a suspect in the disappearance of Gus.”
What Fielke deliberately left out of that announcement was that the “suspect” had good reason to not want to cooperate with SAPOL.
The “suspect”, as we now know, is Gus Lamont’s transgender grandmother, Josie Murray. Right from the start, the fiery 75 year old was highly critical of SAPOL’s questionable handling of the investigation.
Her criticisms appear to have triggered the vindictive tendencies of the notoriously thin-skinned SAPOL.
On 15 January 2026, SAPOL executed a search warrant at the Oak Park Station where young Gus was last seen. During the search they located a gun silencer and several firearms, including one modified to fit the silencer.
If we are to believe the cops, it was a lucky find. Prosecutor Tania Stevens said police had executed the search warrant over an “unrelated matter”, but SAPOL prosecutors have been known to lie through their teeth while under oath.
More likely, what really happened is that SAPOL, angry and wanting to punish Murray for challenging their self-perceived God-like status, scanned through Murray’s police history and saw she had a 2010 conviction for falling to securely store firearms.
How that conviction originated is very interesting, considering SAPOL have cited the property’s remote location as one of the reasons why they ruled out abduction. Media outlets like the Daily Mail have also claimed “local topography makes it almost impossible that a stranger could have abducted him”.
Those claims are demonstrably false because the 2010 conviction offence arose as a result of a fugitive trespassing on the Oak Park Station, breaking into the house, stealing two unsecured guns, then going to a nearby property owned by Josie’s aunt. The fugitive stole another firearm from the aunt’s property and held her hostage, before taking his own life.
Trespass, theft, and a hostage situation: That’s quite the crime spree for a property allegedly too remote for an abduction!
After the incident, police seized the stolen firearms and silencer but later returned them to Murray.
At the time, it was not an offence to possess the silencer, but that changed when the Firearms Act was amended in 2017.
What is interesting is that SAPOL maintains a firearm register. SAPOL knew of the law change and that Murray had a silencer, yet showed no interest in her possession of this item until she started annoying them with her criticisms of their poor investigative practices.
Farmers grow up around guns and, for better or worse, have a more relaxed and accepting attitude towards them than many city dwellers. Which makes it all the more curious that the prosecutor called for a jail term for the offence, which carried a maximum penalty of $75,000 or up to 10 years in prison.
SAPOL clearly has it in for Murray.
Lawyer Stephen Ey rebuffed the prosecutor’s call, saying “This isn’t some James Bond movie where you’ve had … an assassin walking around the corners taking out targets with little more than a whisper of a gun.”
Roderick Jensen, the corrupt magistrate who gave a clearly prearranged free pass to SAPOL thug Aiden Allt in 2023, imposed a $10,500 fine and disqualified Murray from holding a firearms licence for five years.
Once again, we have SAPOL weaponising the law to get back at people who criticise them.
We also have documented proof that an unwanted intruder can, and has, accessed the Oak Park Station.
Let the record show a suicidal fugitive was able to find the property, steal from it, and hold a neighbouring family member hostage. Yet we are supposed to believe a calculating person with bad intentions, in a state where numerous children have disappeared without a trace, would not be able to access the property because … well, just because SAPOL and the Daily Mail said so.
No wonder people don’t trust the cops or media.
Therefore, claims that a potential abduction of Gus was unlikely or even impossible due to the property’s intractable remoteness must be dismissed. If there is other compelling evidence to rule out abduction, then fine, but the “too remote” tale is complete rubbish.
Why police and reporters, who were able to travel to the property without difficulty and in regular vehicles, made these false claims is something they should be forced to explain.
South Australia Police have claimed “the opportunity for anyone to abduct Gus is extremely low.” They say this in a state that is well known for unsolved disappearances of young children.
Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont, Joanne Ratcliff, Kirstie Gordon, Melissa Brown, Rhianna Barreau, Michaela Godau, Marilyn Qualmann, Darren Shannon, Juan Morgan are among the youngsters who disappeared without a trace in South Australia.
Then there are the infamous “Family” murders, in which a group of well-connected Adelaide deviants sexually abused, tortured and murdered five young men aged between 14 and 25, in the 1970s and 1980s. Only one person was eventually charged and convicted for one of the crimes. That was Bevan Spencer von Einem, who received favourable treatment while incarcerated and died last year without offering any information on his co-offenders.
Rachel Vaughan and Andrew McIntyre, offspring of serial pedophile Alan Maxwell McIntyre, insist their father was involved in the murders of the Beaumont siblings and other children, and that he enjoyed police protection.
The claim that South Australia Police would ever be involved in pedophilia and protecting pedophiles is not an outrageous one – it has actually happened numerous times:
One of South Australia’s Most Senior Cops Shut Down Promising Pedophile Investigation
SAPOL Covered Up for Pedophile Senior Officer
Four-Month Old Girl Given Meth and Molested by Relative – SAPOL and DCP Cover It Up
Members of the loosely affiliated group known as the “Family” included some very high profile South Australians. Among those implicated were:
- Peter Leslie Millhouse (cousin of deviant Justice Robin Millhouse)
- prominent criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson (allegedly murdered by his gay lover in 1979)
- Magistrate Richard Brown and his gay partner Dr Stephen Woodards,
Brown was appointed to the magistrate’s bench at the unusually young age of 30 in 1979 – the same year the “progressive” and highly promiscuous bisexual Don Dunstan resigned as premier. Dunstan became well known in the late 1950s for his campaign against the death penalty being imposed on Max Stuart, who was convicted of rape and murder of a small girl.
After business hours, Brown was known to attend gay parties and trawl the city’s notorious gay beat for young men. Brown and Woodards were investigated for raping young males between 1977 and 1981. Brown was again investigated in 1989.
Despite these repeated investigations, Brown remained in the judiciary.
In 2006, while still presiding as a magistrate, he was charged with rape relating to the period between 1977 and 1981. In 2009, Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Pallaras dropped all charges against Brown claiming prosecutors would not be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt the alleged victim was aged under 17 at the time of the alleged offences.
Apparently rape of males is okay in SA so long as they are over 18.
Brown died in December 2010. According to one individual with a family member who attended to Brown on his deathbed, the pedophile’s list of visitors was “mind blowing”. Among the alleged high-profile visitors was Justice Millhouse, who “rocked up wearing pink shorts.”
What is SAPOL really up to?
Unlike many internet sleuths, we do not pretend to know what happened to poor Gus Lamont. What we do know is that SAPOL is an organisation with form for harbouring and protecting pedophiles.
We find it suspicious that SAPOL needlessly delayed deployment of an Aboriginal tracker, delayed publication of Gus’s photo, lied about access to the property, and seems eager to dismiss abduction as a possibility.
If Gus was murdered on site, there would surely be signs of blood, a struggle, dragging etc.
Ditto if he was taken by wildlife. The claim he may have been carried away by an eagle is doubtful, considering the weight of a 4-year-old boy in Australia generally ranges from 13.5kg to 21kg. The maximum a wedge-tailed eagle can carry is reported to be 5kg.
During Josie’s recently aired Spotlight interview, she said police had accused (but not charged) her of burying Gus after he had an accident.
Despite its claimed 11 searches, SAPOL has produced no evidence of an accident or a burial site.
The most feasible scenarios are abduction by someone Gus knew or abduction by a pedophile, of which South Australia has plenty. Both scenarios could feasibly be conducted in a manner that leaves little evidence behind.
Interestingly, after essentially ruling out abduction, old mate Fielke added the disclaimer that “If Gus was abducted, it’s absolutely fortuitous.”
Just like a felon stumbling on to the property, breaking in to the house, stealing guns, then going next door to take a relative hostage.
